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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">xmas holiday mkt, so not political?  kochs boast about crim just reform? recent left DA wins eg SF?</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>After an SUV plowed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, killing five people and injuring 48, including many children, hard-right pundits treated the subsequent arrest of Darrell Brooks like a gift.Jennifer Van Laar, the editor of popular conservative blog Red State, <a href="https://twitter.com/jenvanlaar/status/1462876485480431619?s=21" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">tweeted</a>, "FIFTY PAGES in Darrell Brooks' criminal record. Drugs, violence, crimes of moral turpitude, sexual offenses. But hey, let's allow him to bond out on $1000 even though he's charged with jumping bail."<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/07/08/jack-posobiecs-rise-tied-white-supremacist-movement" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Alt-right troll</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1462847386489954312?s=21" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jack Posobiec</a> and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/in-coronavirus-tweet-storm-trump-touts-suspect-cure.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">COVID-19 disinformation spreader</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chuckcallesto/status/1462765432801312775?s=21" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Chuck Callesto</a> echoed this idea. Turning Point USA's Benny Johnson went a step further, <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1462844637018832908?s=21" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">blaming</a> Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm for the incident. So did Mike Cernovich, who ripped into Chisholm as a "<a href="https://twitter.com/cernovich/status/1462647950941773831?s=21" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Soros DA</a>," despite Chisholm never receiving money from George Soros or his affiliated PACs.DA Chisholm, as a writer at Red State <a href="https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/11/22/new-prosecutors-office-makes-big-admission-about-suspected-waukesha-mass-murderer-n480071" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">put it</a>, is allegedly a "radical leftist who has sought to institute 'criminal justice reform' via 'bail reform.'" It is insinuated that Chisholm quietly ushered Brooks out on a serious and recent domestic violence charge on $1,000 bail, then rolled it back in the media after the tragedy, claiming that his deputy prosecutor made a mistake (Chisholm has now launched an investigation into the Brooks bail decision).Such commentators are in desperate need of a fact-check.Wisconsin is not like California or New Jersey, which saw bail reform legislation pass in the last few years. It has not had a substantial amendment to its <a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/969/Title" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">bail law</a> in at least 10 years, according to the Wisconsin state legislature's website.However, the current law <a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/969/Title" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">does state</a> that a judge can hold a person charged with a crime in jail pretrial "only upon a finding by the court that there is a reasonable basis to believe that bail is necessary to assure appearance in court."Meanwhile, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_State_Senate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">both</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_State_Assembly" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">chambers</a> of the Wisconsin legislature have been dominated by Republicans every year in the last decade.Besides which, if we look at bail reform on a statistical, rather than anecdotal, level, it does not reduce public safety. The vast majority of people facing charges <a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a32782804/bail-funds-george-floyd-protests-pretrial-detention/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">return to court</a> regardless of money bail. In addition, detaining people pretrial, effectively punishing poverty, is "criminogenic," because people <a href="https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/11/17/pretrial-releases/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">lose their jobs</a> and community ties are weakened."Money bail compromises public safety," according to <a href="https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/08/24/bail/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">analysis</a> from the Prison Policy Initiative.As Cernovich points out to support his cause, Chisholm has delivered criminal justice reform talking points. But Chisholm has rarely delivered anything on decarceration but talking points. The Democrat, first elected in 2006, has spent much of his career carefully avoiding policies that would make right-wing opponents angry.In 2017, for example, Chisholm explained how he <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/columnists/jim-stingl/2017/08/11/stingl-more-states-legalize-weed-second-offense-possession-still-felony-wisconsin/554080001/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">refuses</a> to categorically drop marijuana possession cases, despite many of his peers elsewhere doing just that.Chisholm is also the orchestrator of a national strategy to increase the use of drug-induced homicide prosecutions to people who sell drugs as murderers, despite people who have overdosed <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/25/drug-induced-homicide-laws-former-heroin-addict-216507/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">often not wanting this response</a>. He has sent Assistant District Attorney Patricia Daughtery to national conferences to evangelize these prosecutions. Daughtery has gone so far as to advise officials to build cases using tactics that are disrespectful to the same people she is supposedly trying to protect, such as <a href="https://drugpolicy.org/sites/default/files/dpa_drug_induced_homicide_report_0.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">using the cell phones of people who overdosed</a>.Additionally, during Chisholm's tenure, Wisconsin had the highest rate of Black incarceration in the nation, with about 65 percent of Black Wisconsinites living in Milwaukee County. University of Wisconsin law professor Ion Meyn has <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wisconsin-leads-nation-imprisonment-rates-black-people-rcna4160" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">raised concerns</a> that part of this is due to higher prosecution rates and lower plea bargain rates for Black suspects.Amid Chisholm's middle-of-the-road approach to his office, Milwaukee has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-dangerous-cities-in-america/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">one of the highest violent crime rates in the country</a>, with 1,332 incidents for every 100,000 residents. His attempt to please everyone and incense no one has achieved little, and there are numerous progressive steps he should be taking. Chances are, the politicization of the Brooks case will increase the DA's timidity and push him in the opposite direction.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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